I believed that any time my family did anything requiring electricity or fuel - turn on the stove, answer the telephone, drive the car - it was processed and governed by a giant central computer somewhere with technicians running around and big flashing lights. I was never quite clear on whether they controlled things, or just monitored them, but I knew surely they were required to turn on the oven and the telephone and the car in the first place.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God controlled the traffic lights. He would decide when it was everybody's turn to go.— Amanda
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- Once, at night time, I saw the flashing lights from an aeroplane and I thought it was a UFO.Anon
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra